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Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training (pivot-to-ai.com)
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(how Silicon Valley’s made its money for the past 20 years)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgfoVd1VeE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250912-cursor-looks-at-selling-your-data-for-ai-training - podcast

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

how Silicon Valley’s made its money for the past 20 years

So much for silicon valley’s ability to innovate.

Aside: it sucks that SV chuds are developing a future where surveillance capitalism is operating at peak capacity and there’s no privacy by default. And it also sucks that most of them believe that this is going to be some kind of utopian, transhumanist future. Augh.